Program Modelling
Turn what your program does into a model your whole team can see and use
Why building an evaluation model is harder than it should be
Most teams know their program well — but ask them to put it into a theory of change or program logic model, and they stall. The terminology gets confusing, the blank page is intimidating, and it's genuinely hard to separate what you actually do from the difference you're trying to make. The result is that evaluation models either never get built, or get built once and never revisited.
The challenge is threefold:
Knowing where to start - getting off the blank page
Faced with a blank page and a program that lives mostly in people's heads, teams often don't know which piece to put down first.
Separating what you do from the difference you make
Activities and outcomes often get tangled together, making it hard to build clear, distinct building blocks for a model.
The terminology adds confusion
'Theory of change' and 'program logic' are often used interchangeably, leaving teams unsure which model they're even trying to build.
Why a hands-on visual approach works
Why building evaluation models by hand, from story, works
A theory of change or program logic model is often presented as a finished diagram — something to read, not something to build. This program modelling package flips that: your team starts with the program's own stories to identify the building blocks. They then create and physically move activities and outcomes into place using sticky or magnetic notes, a marker and arrows, building the model together rather than being handed one. That act of creating the building blocks from real stories and physically placing and re-placing the pieces is what makes this package work, creating program models that are — teams end up with a model they own and keep returning to, not one that gets shelved after the workshop.
Learning by doing
Teams generate their own building blocks — starting with a storytelling "Find Your Why" activity — and physically arrange them into a theory of change and program logic, rather than filling in someone else's template.
Safe to fail
Nothing is fixed until it's right. Sticky and magnetic notes can be moved, regrouped and re-arranged as many times as it takes, so there's no wrong first attempt — just a draft that gets better.
Builds a shared language
Teams leave with a clear, shared understanding of what "theory of change" and "program logic" actually mean for their own program — and a completed model everyone in the room helped build.
After completing Program Modelling, teams report:
Clarity on where to start when building an evaluation model, instead of staring down a blank page
Confidence separating what they do from the difference they make
A completed draft theory of change and pipeline program logic for their own program
A shared understanding across the team of how their program's activities lead to outcomes
From a blank page.
To models your whole team understands.
Program Modelling gives your team a practical, step-by-step way to turn what you do into a clear theory of change and program logic — built together, not handed down.
Join the teams who've stopped starting from scratch every time someone asks "how does this program actually work?"
Facilitator's course - Basic
149
Every year
Online step-by-step course
Facilitator guide
Presentation videos
Facilitator PowerPoint pack
Community of practice
Reflection and feedback tools
Facilitator's course - Premium
249
Every year
Online step-by-step course
Facilitator guide
Presentation videos
Facilitator PowerPoint pack
Community of practice
Reflection and feedback tools
Two live group coaching sessions
Creator feedback
Certificate of completion
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